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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="36340" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-course/vmware-vvfbmo" lastchanged="2026-03-19T09:08:28+01:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-courses"><title>vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage and Operate</title><productcode>VVFBMO</productcode><vendorcode>VM</vendorcode><vendorname>VMware</vendorname><fullproductcode>VM-VVFBMO</fullproductcode><version>9.0</version><objective>&lt;p&gt;By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Define the key features, use cases and, capabilities of vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Navigating the VCF Operations User Interface.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the licensing options and manage licenses for vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the installation and configuration of ESX.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manage virtual machine resource allocation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphereDistributed Resource Scheduler.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Analyzing the Placement of VM Objects and Components in the vSAN Cluster.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creating Custom Views and Policies in VCF Operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe vSphere Kubernetes, vSphere Supervisor Service.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploy and configure vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploy additional vSphere Foundation components such as VCF Operations Collector, VCF Operations for Logs, andVCF Operations for Orchestrator.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manage the life cycle of VCF Operations and vSphere components.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><essentials>&lt;p&gt;This course has the following prerequisites:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</essentials><audience>&lt;p&gt;System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support Personnel&lt;/p&gt;</audience><contents>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Course Introduction&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;License Management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Foundation Compute&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Foundation Networking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Foundation Storage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploying Virtual Machines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Virtual Machine Management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSAN Management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;VCF Operations Metrics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;vSphere Foundation Deployment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</contents><outline>&lt;h5&gt;Course Introduction&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introduction and course logistics.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Course objectives.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Define the vSphere Foundation key features.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explore the components of vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Introduction to VCF Operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;License Management&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain license usage by product.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;vSphere Foundation Compute&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explain basic virtualization concepts.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Install and configure ESXi host.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and organize vCenter inventory objects&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;vSphere Foundation Networking&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create and configure standard switch.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure distributed switch.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain how to set networking policies.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;vSphere Foundation Storage&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Recognize vSphere storage technologies.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the types of vSphere datastores.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe iSCSI components and addressing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and manage VMFS datastores.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure and manage NFS datastores.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Deploying Virtual Machines&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create and provision VMs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain the importance of VMware Tools.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manage virtual machine resources.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;List the steps to deploy virtual machines.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Virtual Machine Management&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perform snapshots operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recognize vSphere HA design considerations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure a vSphere HA cluster.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;vSAN Management&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the features of vSAN.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify vSAN component states.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Install vSphere Supervisor.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configuring and managing a supervisor.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;VCF Operations Metrics&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure views in VCF Operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure widget interactions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the purpose of using alerts.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the components of an alert definition.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create static symptom definitions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;vSphere Foundation Deployment&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploy vCenter Server Appliance.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:


- Define the key features, use cases and, capabilities of vSphere Foundation.
- Navigating the VCF Operations User Interface.
- Describe the licensing options and manage licenses for vSphere Foundation.
- Describe the installation and configuration of ESX.
- Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches.
- Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere.
- Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots.
- Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines.
- Manage virtual machine resource allocation.
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.
- Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphereDistributed Resource Scheduler.
- Analyzing the Placement of VM Objects and Components in the vSAN Cluster.
- Creating Custom Views and Policies in VCF Operations.
- Describe vSphere Kubernetes, vSphere Supervisor Service.
- Deploy and configure vSphere Foundation.
- Deploy additional vSphere Foundation components such as VCF Operations Collector, VCF Operations for Logs, andVCF Operations for Orchestrator.
- Manage the life cycle of VCF Operations and vSphere components.</objective_plain><essentials_plain>This course has the following prerequisites:


- Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments</essentials_plain><audience_plain>System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support Personnel</audience_plain><contents_plain>- Course Introduction
- VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture
- License Management
- vSphere Foundation Compute
- vSphere Foundation Networking
- vSphere Foundation Storage
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Management
- Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
- vSAN Management
- vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview
- VCF Operations Metrics
- vSphere Foundation Deployment
- Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle</contents_plain><outline_plain>Course Introduction


- Introduction and course logistics.
- Course objectives.
VMware vSphere Foundation Overview and Architecture


- Define the vSphere Foundation key features.
- Explain vSphere Foundation use cases.
- Explain the architecture of vSphere Foundation.
- Explore the components of vSphere Foundation.
- Introduction to VCF Operations.
- List the steps to navigate the VCF Operations UI and vSphere UI.
License Management


- Describe the process for managing and assigning licenses.
- Enable VCF Operations integration for vCenter.
- Explain license usage by product.
vSphere Foundation Compute


- Explain basic virtualization concepts.
- Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center.
- Describe vSphere architecture and use cases.
- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere.
- Install and configure ESXi host.
- Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
vSphere Foundation Networking


- Create and configure standard switch.
- Create and configure distributed switch.
- Differentiate between standard and distributed switches.
- Explain how to set networking policies.
vSphere Foundation Storage


- Recognize vSphere storage technologies.
- Identify the types of vSphere datastores.
- Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing.
- Describe iSCSI components and addressing.
- Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi.
- Create and manage VMFS datastores.
- Configure and manage NFS datastores.
Deploying Virtual Machines


- Create and provision VMs.
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools.
- Manage a virtual machine from the vSphere client.
- Manage virtual machine resources.
- List the steps to deploy virtual machines.
- Clone VMs and create customization specifications for guest operating systems.
- Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries.
Virtual Machine Management


- Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion.
- Perform snapshots operations.
- Specify CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits.
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters


- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA.
- Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster.
- Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings.
- Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures.
- Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster.
- Recognize vSphere HA design considerations.
- Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings.
- Configure a vSphere HA cluster.
vSAN Management


- Identify the features of vSAN.
- Understand the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA.
- Explain the role of the performance leg and the capacity leg in vSAN ESA.
- Examine vSAN ESA Object health states.
- Compare how RAID-0/1/5/6 space consumption.
- Identify vSAN component states.
vSphere Kubernetes Service Overview


- Describe vSphere Supervisor Architecture and use cases.
- Explain vSphere Supervisor Deployment Options.
- Install vSphere Supervisor.
- Explain Supervisor Storage vSphere Zones, Networking, and Storage.
- Configuring and managing a supervisor.
- Configuring vSphere Namespaces for Hosting VKS Clusters.
- Managing vSphere Kubernetes Service Clusters.
VCF Operations Metrics


- Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations.
- Create and configure views in VCF Operations.
- Create and configure reports in VCF Operations.
- Create and configure dashboards in VCF Operations.
- Configure widget interactions.
- Describe the purpose of using alerts.
- Identify the components of an alert definition.
- Create static symptom definitions.
vSphere Foundation Deployment


- Prepare the infrastructure for VMware vSphere Foundation.
- Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
- Explain the high-level steps to deploy vSphere Foundation.
- Describe the procedure for downloading the software using online and offline modes.
- Describe the vSphere Foundation workflow using the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file.
- Deploy and enable VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs, and VCF Operations Orchestrator
- Deploy vCenter Server Appliance.
Managing the vSphere Foundation Lifecycle


- Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner.
- Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports.
- Recognize features of VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Validate and update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware</outline_plain><duration unit="d" days="5">5 days</duration><pricelist><price country="NL" currency="EUR">3195.00</price><price country="IT" currency="EUR">2950.00</price><price country="DE" currency="EUR">3390.00</price><price country="AT" currency="EUR">3390.00</price><price country="SE" currency="EUR">3390.00</price><price country="SI" currency="EUR">3390.00</price><price country="GB" currency="GBP">3615.00</price><price country="RU" currency="RUB">248700.00</price><price country="CH" currency="CHF">3390.00</price></pricelist><miles/></course>